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Obituaries
OF NOTEObituaries of residents from the
District, Maryland and Northern Vir-
ginia.
Catherine Beauchamp,
musician
Catherine Beauchamp, 94, a
singer and administrator for the
Cathedral Choral Society, died
Dec. 30 at her home in Falls
Church, Va. The cause was heart
disease, said a son, Philip Beau-
champ.
Mrs. Beauchamp was born
Catherine Harris in Miami and
grew up in Washington. She
taught private piano lessons at her
home, was a judge of the National
Guild of Piano Teachers for stu-
dent auditions and sang in the
chorus for the Washington Na-
tional Opera. She was a member of
St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church in
McLean, Va., where she also
served on the vestry and was in the
choir.Abdullahi Irro,
Somali general
Abdullahi Irro, 83, a retired So-
mali army general who had lived
in the Washington area for more
than two decades, died Jan. 24 at
his home in Falls Church, Va. The
cause was kidney failure, said a
son, Abdurahman Ahmed.Murat Natirboff,
CIA officer
Murat Natirboff, 100, a CIA offi-
cer who served in Africa, Asia and
Europe, including a period as Mos-
cow station chief, before retiring
in 1989, died Jan. 10 at his home in
Keystone Heights, Fla. The cause
was metabolic encephalopathy,
said a son, Daniel Natirboff.
Mr. Natirboff was born in the
Crimean Peninsula, then one of
the last strongholds of imperialRussia, where his father was an
officer in the anti-Bolshevik White
Army. He grew up in New York and
served in the Marine Corps during
World War II. He retired from the
CIA in 1989 and moved to Florida
from Washington in 2018.Calman Cohen,
trade group leader
Calman Cohen, 76, who from
1981 to 2017 led the Emergency
Committee for American Trade, a
group that favors open trade and
comprises executives of multina-
tional companies, died Jan. 28 at
home in Washington. The cause
was cancer, said a daughter, Nicole
Cohen.
Dr. Cohen was born in Brooklyn
and settled in the Washington
area in 1964. Early in his career, he
was an adviser to Democratic sen-
ators on trade and economic is-
sues and a congressional liaison inthe office of the U.S. trade repre-
sentative.Mark Judson,
businessman
Mark Judson, 51, a partner and
chief executive of EIM Sensor, a
business contracting, consulting
and information technology firm,
died Jan. 18 at a hospital in Wash-
ington. The cause was cancer, said
a sister, Karen Kowallis.
Mr. Judson, a District resident,
was born in Dugway, Utah, and
grew up in the Washington area.
He was a systems engineer for
Electronic Data Systems before
helping start EIM Sensor in 2006.
The company had several govern-
ment clients and more recently
did work for a museum in Galves-
ton, Tex., honoring the African
American-centered holiday of Ju-
neteenth.
— From staff reportsBY MATT SCHUDELBill Fries, an advertising execu-
tive better known by his stage
name, C.W. McCall, who had hit
country records in the 1970s
about long-haul truck driving
during the height of the citizens
band radio craze and whose song
“Convoy” inspired an action film
directed by Sam Peckinpah, died
April 1 at his home in Ouray, Colo.
He was 93.
The death was confirmed by
his son Bill Fries III. Mr. Fries
announced in February that he
was in hospice care for cancer.
After creating the character of
C.W. McCall, a truck driver in a
series of commercials for a Mid-
western bread company, Mr. Fries
(pronounced “freeze”) adopted
the name as his alter ego and
recorded several humorous, free-
wheeling songs about renegade
long-haul truckers.
He had top 20 country hits
with “Old Home Filler-Up an’
Keep On-a-Truckin’ Cafe” and
“Wolf Creek Pass,” about two
truckers hauling a load of chick-
ens down a mountain:
I says, Earl, “I’m not the type to
complain
But the time has come for me to
explain
That if you don’t apply some
brake real soon
They’re gonna have to pick us
up
With a stick and a spoon.”
His best-known song was
“Convoy,” which became a No. 1
country and pop hit, pushing
aside the Bay City Rollers’ “Satur-
day Night” at the top of the
Billboard chart in January 1976.
Mr. Fries wrote the words of
“Convoy” and delivered them in a
deep, fast-talking twang. The
song helped popularize the lingo
that truck drivers used over their
citizens band, or CB, radios and is
almost incomprehensible with-
out a glossary of CB terms.
The name, or “handle,” of the
song’s central character is Rubber
Duck, and he chats with another
driver, Pig Pen, hauling a load of
foul-smelling hogs, which be-
comes a running joke throughout
the song. They join up with a
driver in a “cab-over Pete with a
reefer on” — a refrigerated Peter-
bilt truck with the cab above the
engine — headed east out of
Shaky Town, or Los Angeles, and
“Mercy sakes alive, looks like we
got us a convoy.”
“I’m about to put the hammer
down,” Rubber Duck says, mean-
ing he’s going to drive as fast as he
can, while keeping an eye out for
“smokies,” or highway patrol offi-
cers in flat-brimmed hats like the
ones worn by Smokey Bear. As
more trucks follow along, McCall
chants, “We gonna roll this truck-
in’ convoy ’cross the USA.”
By the time they get to Tulsa,
there are 85 speeding trucks, and
“them smokies is thick as bugs on
a bumper. They even had a bear in
the air” — a police helicopter. As
they move east through Chi-town
(Chicago), the trucks go faster
and the tales grow taller, as the
convoy plows past the “reinforce-
ments from the Illi-noise Nation-
al Guard”: “Well, we shot the line
and we went for broke with a
thousand screamin’ trucks... we
crashed the gate doing 98, I says,
‘Let them truckers roll.’ ”
It was not the first song about
evading the police on the open
road. Chuck Berry had recorded
“Maybellene” in 1955, and Com-
mander Cody and His Lost Planet
Airmen had a hit in the early
1970s with a remake of the old
rockabilly tune “Hot Rod Lin-
coln.” But “Convoy” came along
when truckers faced rising fuel
costs and a nationwide 55 mph
speed limit, and the use of CB
radios was becoming widespread.
“It was timely,” Mr. Fries told
the Associated Press in 1990.
“Back in 1975-76, that craze was
sweeping the country. The jargon
was colorful, and the American
public liked that, too. It was laced
with humor, but it had a rebel-
lious feeling about it and people
responded to it.”
“Convoy” sold an estimated
7 million copies and became an
unexpected phenomenon,
spawning Peckinpah’s 1978 film
of the same name, starring Kris
Kristoffersen. During the same
period, Burt Reynolds’s “Smokey
and the Bandit” movies were
box-office hits, and the “outlaw”
country music of Waylon Jen-
nings and Willie Nelson was gain-
ing popularity.
“We always took ourselves seri-
ously, but we never thought it
would get as big as it has,” Mr.
Fries said in 1975. “I’m flabber-
gasted by the success of ‘Convoy.’
It spread like a grass fire.”
Performing as McCall, Mr.
Fries had five other top 20 coun-
try hits, including the sentimen-
tal 1977 ballad “Roses for Mama.”
He sold about 20 million records
before largely abandoning his
performing career in the late
1970s.
Wearing jeans, a vest and a
battered cowboy hat, Mr. Fries
performed as McCall on network
television programs, including
Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show,”
and headlined national concert
tours.“People came out to see me but
didn’t know what I looked like.
They just knew my voice,” he told
the Associated Press. “So I had to
learn to be a face. This meant a lot
of rehearsing and learning the
business of stage shows: how C.W.
McCall was supposed to act and
look. It was an identity crisis.”
Billie Dale Fries was born
Nov. 15, 1928, in Audubon, Iowa.
His father was a foreman at a
company that manufactured
farm buildings. Both of his par-
ents played musical instruments,
and Mr. Fries had early aspira-
tions of being a classical musi-
cian.
Mr. Fries — who later legally
changed his name to William
Dale Fries Jr. — played the clari-
net in bands at the University of
Iowa and later studied art and
film production.
He moved in the early 1950s to
Omaha, where he was an artist
and set designer at a television
station before joining the Bozell
& Jacobs advertising agency in- He eventually became cre-
ative director and vice president.
In the early 1970s, Mr. Fries
was asked to devise an advertis-
ing campaign for Old Home
bread, which was sold in several
Midwestern states. He created
the characters of C.W. McCall and
a gum-chewing waitress named
Mavis at the Old Home Filler-Up
an’ Keep On-a-Truckin’ Cafe.
“Tell me, truck man, what’s
your name?” Mavis says —
mouthing the words spoken by
Mr. Fries — in the first of 12 Old
Home commercials in the series.
“C.W. McCall, and I haul for Old
Home. You can call me C.W.”
The commercials became so
popular that viewers called TV
stations asking when the spots
would air, and they won a nation-
al Clio Award for advertising in
1974 for the best U.S. television
campaign.
Mr. Fries’s musical partner was
Chip Davis, a Bozell & Jacobs
jingle composer who wrote the
music for most of the C.W. McCall
songs. Davis became the creative
force behind Mannheim Steam-
roller, a Grammy-winning group
that blends classical and New Age
musical elements.
Mr. Fries left Bozell & Jacobs in
the mid-1970s and stopped per-
forming as C.W. McCall by 1980.
He recorded a few other songs
over the years while living in
retirement in Ouray, which he
called “a mining town with
mountains all around and a pop-
ulation of 680 when we are all
here.” He served as mayor from
1986 to 1992.
Survivors include his wife of 70
years, Rena Bonnema Fries; and
three children, Bill Fries III, Mark
Fries and Nancy Fries; a sister;
four grandchildren; four great-
grandchildren; and a great-great-
grandson.
“Well, mercy sakes, good bud-
dy, we gonna back on outta here,”
C.W. McCall says at the end of
“Convoy,” with a slight alteration
of a trucker’s farewell: “Keep the
bugs off your glass and the bears
off your... tail.”BILL FRIES, 93
Advertising executive wrote ‘Convoy’ and other
unlikely 1 970s truck driving hits as C.W. McCall
GAB ARCHIVE/REDFERNS/GETTY IMAGES
Advertising executive Bill Fries poses as singer C.W. McCall circa 1975, the year his hit song “Convoy”
was released. It was a No. 1 country and pop hit, topping the Billboard charts in January 1976.DEATH NOTICEAINES
FRANKG. AINES(Age88)
On Sunday,March27, 2022,
of SilverSpring,MD.Beloved
husband ofthe late Judy Aines;
fatherof Thomasand Steven
Ainesandsurvivedby other
familyand friends.Frank grad-
uatedfromWentworthMilitaryAcademy,
wasagraduateof KansasStateUniversi-
ty ‘56 and honorablydischargedfromthe
US Army.Frank had along careeras an
electricalengineerworkingon shipboard
weaponsand communicationsystemsfor
example.Relativesand friendsmaycall at
CollinsFuneral Home,500 UniversityBou-
levardWest, SilverSpring,MD,onTuesday,
April5, from10 to 11 a.m.,whereFuneral
Servicewill followat 11 a.m.Interment
Gateof HeavenCemetery.Inlieu of flow-
ers,Memorialcontributionsmaybe made
to The AmericanCancerSocietyor WETA.
http://www.collinsfuneralhome.comFRANCISLEROYALLENJR.
Francis,affectionatelycalled"Allen"or "Junior"
byclosefriends,passedpeacefullyathome
March31,2021.Hewasprecededindeath
byhislovingwifeof 40years,LolitaS. Mason
Allen.HeissurvivedbehischildrenKim,
Francis(Frank)lll,Wade(Linda)andDonna
(RoscoeLedbetter,Jr.), sevengrandsandthree
great-grands.His survivingsiblings:Willard(Joe
deceasedAugust30,2021)Kenneth,Roger
(Pamela),John(Agnus),Eddie,ViolaRogers,
Elizabeth(WilliamVaughn),Sherryandsister-
in-lawGenevieveGreenfield.Hewaspreceded
in deathbyhisparentsAnnieandFrancisSr,
siblingsLawrence(Puddin),Annette(Sis),Linda
(Snowball),DorisCannon,Mammie,Judyand
Stephan.Hewillberememberedbymany
lovingfamilymembersandfriends.
It'sbeenawholeyearsinceyourpassing.With
heavyhearts,thereisn'tonedaythatyouare
notmissed.Wenewyouweretough.Yetyou
werestrongerthanweevenimagined.We
loveandmissyouDad.Servicesprivate.The
link:https://www.washingtonandsonsfuneral-
home.com/obituary/Francis-AllenJrALLENDEATH NOTICEDIAMOND
JOSEPHGERARDDIAMOND“Joe”
(Age79)
Of Easton,Maryland,passedawaypeace-
fullyon Thursday,March24, 2022,withhis
wifeand familyby his side.Born in Scran-ton, Pennsylvaniaon October18, 1942,to
the late Josephand HelenDiamond.
Joe served23 yearsin the Air Force,includ-
ing two toursin Vietnam.He servedanother
22 yearsas an Air Force civil servantin nu-
merousleadershippositions.
FamilywasJoe’sgreatestloveand source
of pride.Heleavesbehindhis wifeof 39
years,CarlynDiamond;threedaughters,
ninegrandchildren,threegreat-grandchil-
dren,and asister.One daughterpreceded
Joe in death.
Funeral arrangementsare beinghandledby
Fellows,Helfenbein&Newnam,200 South
HarrisonStreet,Easton,withviewingson
Thursday,April 7, from1to3and 5to7p.m.
Afuneral masswill be celebratedon Friday,
April8at11a.m. at SaintsPeter &Paul
CatholicChurch, 1214 SouthWashington
Street,Easton.
The entireobituarycan be viewedat
http://www.fhnfuneralhome.comFLOOD
DR. ALLENATLEE FLOODSR.
Passedawayon March27, 2022.Bornin
Cofield,NorthCarolina,he wasaproud
graduateof C.S. BrownHighSchool,North
CarolinaA&TStateUniversityand Howard
UniversityMedicalSchool.He waspreced-ed in deathby his sister,ReneeF. Stiff,and
his brothers,Dr. Roy D. Flood,Sr.and Merrill
Flood.
He is survivedby his wifeof 53 years,Juan-
ita; his sonsAllenA. Flood,Jr.and Anthony
A. Flood;onegranddaughter,Ava Flood;
and one sisterGladysThompson.He is also
survivedby his sisters-in-law YvonneFlood
and CarolynFloodGoode.Additionalsurvi-
vorsincludemanylovingrelativesespecial-
ly his nieces,nephews,cousins,and many
devotedand caringfriends.Visitationwill
be heldat the Hines-RinaldiFuneral Home
locatedat 11800NewHampshireAvenue,
SilverSpring,Maryland 20904 from6p.m.
to 8p.m. on Friday,April 8, 2022.Amemori-
al servicewill be heldat DunbartonChapel
at HowardUniversityLawSchoollocated
at 2900VanNess St. NW,Washington,DC
20593.The servicewill beginat
11 a.m.on Saturday,April 9, 2022.In lieu of
flowers,the familyasksthat acontribution
be madeto the HowardUniversityDepart-
mentof Dermatologyc/o Dr.GinetteOkoye,
2041 GeorgiaAvenueNW,Suite 4300,Wash-
ington,DC 20060.HANTMAN
DR. JEROMEHANTMAN
Dr.Jerome“Jerry”Hantman,80,
died at homein Columbia,Mary-
land,on March28, 2022.Aleg-
endarycardiologistin Columbia
and beyond,he wasknownas
abrilliantand caringphysician
whoregularlyignoredscheduledtimelimits
on his patients’appointments.Asahospital
administrator,hedemandedthe highestof
ethicsand medicalproficiencyfromhis col-
leaguesand staff.The progressionof Parkin-
son’sdisease,whichsadlynecessitatedhis
retirementin 2014,led to his death.
Dr.Hantmanwasthe belovedhusbandof
Irene(SaundersGoldstein)Hantman;devot-
ed father to David (JamieBrown),Joshua,
and Deborah Hantman;step-fatherto Eric
(Erin)Goldstein;and lovinggrandfatherof
EmmaHantman,and Addisonand Annema-
rie Goldstein.Dr.Hantmanis alsosurvived
by his brother,Arnold(SheilaFeiler),and
sister,Carol(Salem)Leaman;nieces,Les-
lie HantmanSmith,LisaHantmanBrooks
(TsacheeZilberfarb),RachelLeaman,and
Jennifer Temchine (Chaim) Kaweblum;
nephews,Aaron(AmyKatz)Leaman,Raven
Coleman-Brooks,BenjaminTemchine(Mike-
la Seligman),and MichaelTemchine(Eliza
Feller);great-nephews,CooperSmith,Ian
Leaman,AsherTemchine,JonahTemchine,
and JesseTemchine;and great-niece,Ahuva
Kaweblum.An earliermarriageto the late
Sue-Ellen(WolfsonBeck)Hantmanendedin
divorce.
Bornon January18, 1942,to Louisand Eve
(Kurtzman)Hantmanin Neptune,New Jer-
sey,Dr. Hantmangrewup in Freehold,New
Jersey,and eventuallyattendedBrandeis
University.Heplayedtennisfor his school
underthen-coachBudCollins,and many
yearslater,when askedabouthis former
athlete,Collinsinstantlyreplied“greatleft
hander—wickedserve.” Despitehis love for
Brandeisand tennis,heleft afterthreeyears
to pursueadegreein medicine.Hegraduat-
ed fromTufts UniversitySchoolof Medicine
in 1966,and laterearnedamasterof medi-
cal managementdegreefromCarnegie-Mel-
lon University.
Afteramedicalresidencyin Bostonand
serviceas acaptainin the UnitedStatesAir
Force,Dr. Hantmanand his familymovedto
Columbia,Maryland.
Havingfoundedin 1975the medicalprac-
ticenowknownas CardiovascularSpe-
cialistsof Central Maryland,Dr.Hantmangrew his practiceand alsojoinedthe staff
of HowardCountyGeneral Hospital.He
wasthe hospital’sfirst cardiologistand,
overthe years,servedas chairmanof the
Departmentof Medicine,chief of the Car-
diologyDepartment,directorof utilization
management,directorof the newcoronary
careunit,and presidentof the professional
stafforganization,amongotherkey posi-
tions.Inaddition,he directedthe cardiology
departmentat DoctorsCommunityHospital
in Lanham,Maryland.He alsovolunteered
his skillsfor manyyearsat afree clinicin
HowardCounty.
Thebusinessof medicinefascinatedDr.
Hantman,and he foundedaprimarycare
practiceconnectedto his cardiologyprac-
tice in orderto demonstrate thatapart-
nershipbetweeninternalmedicine and
specialtycareis essentialto best-practice
healthcare—decadesbeforethatconnec-
tionin factbecamebestpractice.Many
Columbia-basedphysicianstodayremem-
ber Dr.Hantmanas key to theirsuccess—a
generousand activementor,intenton pro-
motingandmaintainingbestethicaland
medicalpracticesin HowardCounty.
In his earlieryearsDr.Hantmanwas an avid
tennisplayer,pool shark,golfer,skier,model
train builder,woodworker,amateurastron-
omer.Alife-longeclecticlearner,healso
enjoyedtravelingand participatingin Jewish
communityactivities.Inlater life he devel-
opedastronginterestin Jewishgenealogy.
He alsocollectedmorethan1,200doctor
figurinesfromaroundthe world,manyof
themgiftsfromgratefulpatientsand good
friends.
Serviceswereheldat TempleIsaiahin
Fulton,MD 20759,onMarch30, 2022,at
11 a.m.Intermenttookplaceat Columbia
MemorialPark. Pleaseomitflowers.The
familysuggestsacharitabledonationto
the MichaelJFox Foundation,PO Box 5014,
Hagerstown,MD 21741;JewishFederation
of HowardCounty,10630LittlePatuxent
Parkway,Suite400,Columbia,MD 21044;
or HowardHospitalFoundation, 5755 Cedar
Lane,Columbia,MD 21044.Shivawill con-
tinueon SundaywithaZoomShivaservice
throughBethShalomCongregation.That
link -aswell as amemorialbookfor con-
dolencemessages-can be foundon Levin-
son’swebsite.Arrangementsby Sol Levin-
son &Bros., Inc.
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